Improvement in rein-holders



. UNITED; STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. HARVEY, OF VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT lN RElN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,060, dated October 98, 1879 application filed July 1, 1879.

bar, composed of two parts, the upper divided so that the reins can be slipped down between the two parts. V

Secondly, it consists of stops placed on the reins, which bear against the horizontal bar and prevent the reins from being drawn or switched down.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the improvement applied to a dashboard.

Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same on line :10 m. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the dashboard, showing the .mannerof attaching the supporting-frame thereto. Fig. 4 is arear view of the horizontal bar and stops, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the stop and one rein.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A is the dashboard. Tothe frontof this dash-board is fixed a frame composed of bars B 13', connected together by upright rods 0 O fixed in the lower bar, B, but connected with the upper bar in such a way as to permit it to be raised and lowered to accommodate the frame to dash-boards of diiferent heights. To these bars are fixed hooks at, those on the upper bar, B, being hooked over the upper bar of the dash-board frame, while those on the lower, B, are passed through the dash-board and hooked over its lower bar, and they are retained in place by thumb-screws 0 passed through the hooks and bearing against the dash-board, as clearly shown. 1

In the bars B B are placed two upright rods, d d, the upper portions whereof above B being bent outward, and the'extreme ends turned up.

0' represents the'supporting-bar, composed of two parts, 6 c, with a space between, branching from solid ends ff, having holes through them, through which the upturned ends of rods 61 d are passed, nuts being screwed on the projecting ends to hold thebar G in place."

the stud is passed through an eyelet back ofbar 0, with the wings i projecting over the edges of the reins, A rubber strap, j, is then passed under the reins, and its slotted ends passed up over the wings until they rest in the notches between the wings and the body of the stop, as clearly shown in the drawings, thus securing the stops to the reins, so that they cannot slip from their position.

The stops E are set back sufficiently far to allow a-slight slack in the reins between the bar 0 and the horse; but they prevent the reins, by bearing against bar 0, from. falling under the horses heels, and make it impossible for the horse to switch the reins under his tail or out of the drivers grasp. They also render a check-rein unnecessary, and when the horse is watered it is only necessary to slip the reins out of the supporting-bar 0, when he is at full-liberty to lower his head sufli-' cient-ly to reach the water, and thus the necessity of the driver gettin gout of the wagon to release the check-rein, as has to be done now, is avoided.

Hooks a are provided with screw-holes, to enable them to be fastened to the dash-board, with screws in case there are no bars to support them.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent- 1. As an improvement in rein-holders, the horizontal supporting-bar O, composed of two parts, 00, the former divided in the middle,

These reins are provided said bar being snpporled on it suitable frame (I, placed in bars '13 B, horizontal supportingattached to the dash-board, in combination bar 0, supported by rods d, and composed of with the stops E, placed on the reins back of two parts, 00, and stops E, fixed in reins D,

' the bar 0, to prevent them from being drawn for the purpose of furnishing a support for the out, substantially as described. i reins, substantially as described. 2. The frame composed of bars B 13, con- CHARLES FREDRIOK HARVEY.

nected together by rods 0, and provided with Witnesses: hooks a and set-screws 0, to connect it with D. W. MOORE, the dash-board, in combination with the rods \V. H. H. SHIBLEY. 

